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MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIRMAN
The role of business in our global community has been redefined during the past decade. Investors increasingly apply three criteria when assessing whether a company is sustainable and contributing to the greater good: Environment, Social and Governance (ESG).
At Generali, we welcome this greater ambition. ESG is a practical framework that guides and summarizes the actions we are taking – inside our business and in our communities – to ensure a sustainable development for all.
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Our global Foundation, The Human Safety Net, is part of our commitment to society. It addresses the great social challenges of our time and it is one of Generali’s key contributions to achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
One of the core beliefs behind SDGs is that we must leave nobody behind if we want to succeed as a global community. We need to leverage everyone’s potential, every talent in our society. And this is also The Human Safety Net’s mission: to unlock human potential and to empower vulnerable communities within our society.
Two years after its launch, The Human Safety Net is active in 21 countries around the world and running three evidence-based programmes. We partner with 46 leading NGOs and social enterprises, acting together as a net to amplify the impact that each organization might have on its own. The sum is indeed greater than the parts.
We believe that businesses have to be at the forefront of those who create change and disrupt the status quo. We can do this by working with changemakers like NGOs and social enterprises but also by mobilizing our almost 72,000 employees, 150,000 agents and 61 million clients. We want The Human Safety Net to be a movement that brings these groups and everybody who shares our purpose closer together.
Over the past two years, The Human Safety Net has been set up and run much like a social start-up, powered by the hard work, passion and commitment of colleagues and partners around the world. In this first Activity Report, we would like to share this journey with you: what we have accomplished, achieved and learned along the way.
